"Tamte dzieci potrzebują kobiety."

Translation: Those children need a woman.

[Walkinthedog]

Being a widower for seven years, I could use one also.

[artit91]

I am a widower for a year now and my child is Polish so I would also need one to survive here.

[ShaneCal]

At this stage I'm convinced that even Polish people don't know how Polish works

[Walkinthedog]

Sheeesh! No one promised it would be easy.

[Sweetblue001]

I find sentence confusing. In english we would not say that those children need a woman. It makes it sound slighty slighty perverted. Maybe Those children need a mother or adult.

[Walkinthedog]

kobiete ?

[Jellei]

"potrzebować" takes Genitive.

But using Accusative with it is quite a common mistake among the natives.

[WellingtonCatnip]

These children need a woman should have been accepted

[jichaela0000]

tamte=those

[ricardo.pa8]

Mistake here, its singular noun

[Jellei]

"kobiety"? Yes, "potrzebować" takes Genitive, so "kobiety" here is a Genitive singular form.

[KristineKruszer]

How do we know it's genitive? Are we supposed to memorize every verb and what case they take? Or is there a hint in the word?

[Jellei]

You need to understand which verbs take a direct object (Accusative) and which take an indirect object (Dative, which I believe you haven't encountered yet).

Then I'm afraid you actually need to memorize those verbs that take a direct object in Genitive, so they are exceptions to the usual rule. But not that many common verbs do that. This post lists such verbs in Part 8: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16569658 - only some of those are even taught in this course.

[josephine115650]

Just curious, how would one say 'Those children need women' will it be the same translation but you can only know if it singular or plural thanks to the context?

[alik1989]

There will be a different form: "...potrzebują kobiet".